Armed Robbers Takes over the Sawla to Damongo

Armed robbers in the early hours of yesterday Sunday ambushed and succeeded  in robbing passengers onboard a Bole bus on its way to Tamale early in the morning with another

 in the evening.

Speaking to Bole based Nkilgi Fm reporter in Damongo Zion Abdul Rauf in Damongo after the incident, a victim of the first robbery incident onboard the Bole passenger bus called Takora  explained that on their way in between Nasoyiri, a farming community in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district and Grupe in the West Gonja District, passengers onboard the bus suddenly saw a young man with a gun in the middle of the road stopping the bus.

Approaching the man on a hilly part of the road appeared another man with a gun also commanding the driver to stop.

For fear of the bus being shot into, the driver complied and immediately on both sides of the car stood armed men with two of them climbing the car.

According to the eyewitness and victim, the driver who has guna on him was directed to drive into a gravel a pit which is about three hundred meters away from the main road.

All passengers onboard were ordered to drop from the car at gunpoint. The robbers then asked to lye flat on the ground where searching started. Many of them had their mobile phones seized especially android phones.

Money and android phones belonging to the passengers onboard the bus were taken away from them in a search party conducted  by the armed men.

Another victim of the incident, Mr Asumah Kadiri popularly called Alhaji who is an aid to the MP for Bole-Bamboi constituency who had his phone taken away from him also narrated to Nkilgi FM that the armed men numbering more than seven did the operation for more than an hour. He said two of the armed men who were fully masked spoke in the  Wali dialect with the rest who were unmasked speaking in the Fulani language with all of them wielding guns.

Mr Kadiri who laid by a lady who is a police by profession had her identity revealed through her phone wall paper and her identity card. She had her breast fondled in the process when the robbers realised she was from the police service.

The robbers in the process told the passengers that they had targeted a car from Wa only for luck to elude the Bole bus.

One of the victims in the bus managed to call the husband who also called

into the studios of Bole based Nkilgi FM to inform them and so Nkilgi did series of announcements warning people om the road to hold on.

The announcements by Nkilgi Fm made the Damongo police to rush to the scene.

The siren from the police vehicle made the robbers to flee into the bush.

Meanwhile, later in the evening of yesterday after the police had left the scene, Mr Kofi Kumatey, a sanyong driver who plies the Damongo to the Sawla road was attacked by the arm robbers on the same spot and just as they did to the Yagbon express bus, they directed the sanyong mini bus into a gravel pit and took away money and that of passengers of the sanyong mini bus at gunpoint making it robbery case number two for the day.

Source: thepressradio.com/Ghana/Zion Abdul Rauf